PROCESS FOR GUIDING A FLYING OBJECT AND FLYING OBJECTS

Assignee

BUCK WERKE GMBH & CO.

Filed

Mar 26, 1993

Granted

Mar 9, 1999

Location

BAYERISCH GMAIN DE

Abstract

Process for guiding an elongated missile, equipped with booster motor, sustainer, power source, control electronics, payload, and search head, from above, upon a target, such as a helicopter, where the missile, after ballistic flight, is braked before the target area by a drogue chute and is diverted into a position that is essentially perpendicular to the earth's surface over the target area so that the search head of the missile, which is suspended from the drogue chute, will be pointed downward, whereupon, after the search head has locked on the target, the drogue chute is separated and the missile is guided to the target by the sustainer, characterized in that, immediately prior to, before, or after the moment of drogue chute deployment, a lateral motor, located in the center of gravity of the missile, is turned on so that, first of all, in order to accelerate the tilt-off of the missile into the vertical, there is generated a force that is added vectorially to the force of gravity and that thereupon one can counteract the missile's rolling, pitching, and yawing motions, that take place during the search phase that follows the tilt-off, so that the missile is stabilized, as well as missile for performance of said process.

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